Flash CS5 Cannot load SWF during “Test Movie” or Startup Screen is blank.
Flash CS5 Cannot load SWF during “Test Movie” or Startup Screen is blank., Posted in Actionscript 3, Flash, May 10th, 2011

On OSX this typically means that you have moved your “Home” folder to another drive or have another drive mounted on the root /Users folder.

To resolve this issue you will need to create a symbolic link to the /Users folder from the /Volumes folder.

In my scenario, my Volume Name is “Users” which is being mounted to /Users using fstab.

$ cd /Volumes
$ sudo ln -sf /Users ./Users

In FINDER, you can goto /Volumes and it will show a hard disk icon which will direct you to /Users folder.

This fixes an issue with the startup screen and the test/debug movie functionality.